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In reply to the discussion: Some people fear impeachment will rip our country apart. [View all]Bettie
(16,145 posts)18. It would rip our country apart
in the same way that excising a cancerous tumor from a body "rips" it apart.
Sometimes, you have to cut out the bad to let the good grow.
Maybe weeding the garden is a better analogy, get rid of the weeds in order to let the things we want to grow take root and grow stronger.
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Getting a splinter out seems like ripping a wound apart, but it's the only way to truly heal.
PubliusEnigma
Jan 2019
#5
Allowing them to think there are no consequences for their actions will only
Baitball Blogger
Jan 2019
#6
Impeachment will take many months. If trump were removed it would be during the run up to the
wasupaloopa
Jan 2019
#10
During Watergate the opposing sides were at each other's throats. My brother thought that if Nixon
wasupaloopa
Jan 2019
#9
So yeah, we should leave a traitor in the White House so people aren't offended
EricMaundry
Jan 2019
#15
I have heard a number of Republican trump supporters talk about there profound hate for liberals
lancelyons
Jan 2019
#23
Impeach, then charge Trump, Ivanka, Junior, Jared, Mitch and the rest with treason.
Bluepinky
Jan 2019
#28
If we can't follow the rule of law that our country is built upon in fear of destroying it
Downtown Hound
Jan 2019
#33
It's already ripped. Maybe impeachment could start the process of putting it back together.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2019
#52
We must impeach! Actions have consequences. Does anyone know how House impeachment hearings
in2herbs
Jan 2019
#55
Well said! We must respect the words 'impeachment' as such. They (impeachment) are there for ...
SWBTATTReg
Jan 2019
#58
Impeachment could restore the citizen's faith in elected leaders. and we need that.
lindysalsagal
Jan 2019
#65
NOT impeaching will rip our country apart - yes the ripping has already begun and I think we
Kashkakat v.2.0
Jan 2019
#67